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What is the character of the traditional Chinese literati

Traditional Chinese literati are mostly influenced by the concepts of "Learning and excellence" and "Cultivating one's body and family, ruling the country and leveling the world", always in order to seek fame and fortune to serve the country and benefit the people's deep feelings, is a very typical and special group. With its own unique literary sensibility thinking and literary aesthetic interest, and for the literati group **** have the external image and qualities, in the reality and the ideal of the dual dimensions are often presented in a reluctant to vulgarity, tends to show the literary form of the inner self-sensibility of the world. Out of the demand for individual emotional expression, the initiative to create literary works, and from the literary works to send or seek a kind of individual expression of emotions and thoughts. Literature and literary characteristics reflect to a certain extent the character image of the literati themselves. The relationship between literature and literati is complementary. Often from the literary works of perspective, scrutiny can reflect a literati character quality. Throughout history, there have been many hermits, such as Tao Yuanming, Lin and Jing, Wang Wei, and so on and so forth. It seems that sometimes they are hidden, but in the field of literature, they have never stopped creating. The literary works left behind are an inexhaustible source of wisdom for future generations of literati.